Alan V. Goldman’s “Reflections on Mountaineering” was Displayed at the 2023 San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books

Alan V. Goldman’s Poetry Book, “Reflections on Mountaineering: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains” (Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded) was displayed at the 2023 San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books by the self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet.

Alan V. Goldman has penned a collection of poems about his mountaineering experiences, through which he shares his insights into human nature and the human condition.

“Reflections on Mountaineering” examines human reactions to fear and awe, and explores the role of luck, fate, and chance in the mountain environment. The poems also deal with the human perception of the passage of time, and in the process attempts to explore the so-called “meaning of life” itself. Other poems deal with a climber’s situational awareness in the mountain arena, dealing with the force of a mountain’s presence, and with the sheer power of a its reality. After all, a mountain is passive, but inspires creative action.

All the poems are Narrative in form, that is, they tell a coherent story meant to be readily accessible to the general public, unlike much poetry which is esoteric and difficult to comprehend. Some poems rhyme while others are in blank verse or structured prose (“prose-poems"). This Fifth Revised and Expanded Edition summarizes much of what the author learned in his 30-plus years of climbing, either from personal experience or from his teachers and mountaineering peers.

Indeed, the poems in this collection may be said to constitute a “meditation” on humanity’s place in nature, and on the nature of reality itself, as perceived in the context of exploring the limits of human understanding and achievement.

Grasp the penetrating insights about life shared by the author throughout his mountaineering poems. Get your copy of “Reflections on Mountaineering: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains” (Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded) at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Further, learn more about the author and his works at his fulsome Website, www.mountainreflections.art, where, among many other features, the author reads aloud many of his poems.

“Reflections on Mountaineering: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains” (Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded
Author : Alan V. Goldman
Published Date : June 2023
Publisher : Bookside Press
Genre: Adventure; Natural World; Philosophy; Human Behavior

Author’s Biography

Alan V. Goldman is a graduate of Horace Mann School (1975); Harvard College (1979); and Harvard Law School (1982). He was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1979. He practiced law on Wall Street for many years and is now retired.

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